Workshop w/ Ágnes Grélinger & Katarína Bajkayová: Pelvic explorations II

Unfolding pleasure in conversations with clay and community

We would like to invite female participants to a guided embodiment and clay research workshop with Hungarian artist, dancer and choreographer Ágnes Grélinger and visual artist and ceramist Katarína Bajkayová. 

The research revolves around our pelvis (sk: panva); the visible/material and invisible/immaterial realities present inside of us. Amongst others, the pelvis houses the reproductive and pleasure organs, it’s our sexual and creative energy center. 

This particular workshop in a collaboration between Ágnes Grélinger and clay artist Katarina Bajkayova grew out of their shared interest in the topic of female pleasure and sexual empowerment.  

During the workshop we will work with guided embodiment practices and modelling clay. 

We will allow the information – the immaterial –

that emerge from our bodies – the material –

to materialise 

in clay, 

the matter from the body of the Earth. Mother Earth.

While allowing our hands to get into intuitive conversations with clay, we’ll be engaging in intimate conversations around questions like: 

What relationship do we have to pleasure? 

What stories, beliefs, blocks, desires do our bodies hold and how can we open up and empower each other? 

What have we inherited from our maternal line? 

How can we co-create a safe container to share our stories?  

This is also an intent to bring back the tradition of “fonó” (Hungarian). Fonó literally means spinning but it’s also the expression to describe the most important occasion for women’s community space and co-working activity, that lasted from the fall harvest until the end of carnival season. 

ÁGNES GRÉLINGER  is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer with many years of experience in facilitating somatic, creative workshops, women’s circles and is also a Bodytalk practitioner.

KATARÍNA BAJKAYOVÁ  is a visual artist and ceramist. She creates mainly spatial installations using ceramics in combination with other materials. Currently, she is particularly interested in the topics of social relations, eroticism, and female sexuality, which she explores in the context of natural sciences, mythology, and literature. She organizes individual ceramic workshops for women. 

12.3.2025 / 17:00-20:00

Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40 (Vitézov dvor)

The workshop can be held simultaneously in Slovak, English and Hungarian. 

Price 25 EUR / person (the price includes materials, ceramic firing and lecturer’s guidance)

Registration is binding after payment of the fee by bank transfer to the account: SK2083300000002101379506 (please write your name and the name of the workshop in the note)

Cancellation: Free cancellation is possible up to two days before the event.

Registration: https://forms.gle/At66oXHyM7rsbmc49

If you have any questions or doubts, please get in touch with us: monika.padejova@kair.sk

We look forward to your participation!

Book recommendation – Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

The residency program is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council.

The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of this project.